First Quarter Outside Reading Book
Trouble Comes Back by Keith Snyder. Walker Publishing,1999. Genre: Suspense Fiction
Trouble Comes Back is the third installment of the life of Jason Keltner. The story is about three young men named Jason Keltner, Robert Goldstein, and Martin Altamarino who help out rock star Dwight Copper. In return Copper lets them take care of his daughter Donna , who became fond of Robert. They soon find out that there is a kidnaping threat and Lissa Court, Copper’s ex-wife is a suspect. Then later in the story Donna gets kidnaped and the Kidnaper want Lissa to pay him/her one million dollars for her return. After Lissa pays, Jason hires a loan shark to find and kill the kidnaper, who they later find out is Martin’s mom’s ex-boyfriend Ed. The story ends with Jason living in a beach house in Southern California with his new girlfriend he met when investigating Lissa in New York City. The setting of the story is mostly in Southern California, but also goes to New York for a short period of time.
"An amusing mystery.... It’s always a good idea for an author to keep the action slightly ahead of the reader, and that’s how Snyder operates during most of this entertaining high-tech tale." -Los Angeles Times , reads the book jacket.
Trouble Comes Back show the three main character Robert, Jason, and Martin a little older now and starting to settle down until Martin asks for help. This book is similar as two earlier books in the series Show Control and Coffin’s Got the Dead Guy on the Inside as it too follows Jason and his friends in crime-solving mysteries. CSI, NCIS, and The Mentalist are all crime-solving, mystery show that remind me of this book with kidnaping, drugs, vulgar vocabulary, and murder.
"The gray door opened in and the iron security door swung out and Lissa Court shot straight at Jason. Her nails came up and raked his forearms as he raised them to protect his face."
"You f**k!" she screamed. "You goddamn f**k!"
" He didn’t have a reaction ready, so he just kept his arms up and blocked her reasonably well. Frannie the makeup lady, standing in the doorway, dropped her tackle box and hurried after Lissa." (166)
After reading this book I really want to read the first two and the fourth installment he Snyder wrote. I would like to read one of his books not in the series to see what other kinds of writing he writes. I think I really liked the topic of this book because I am a huge fan of crime and mystery books so I had a fun time reading this book. Also another thing I liked about this book is that it kept me guessing which I liked and which made me want to read on.
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1. Sean had an overall good impression on the book, he seemed to have enjoyed reading it.
ReplyDelete2. The reviewer noticed that this book was similar to the two other books previous to this one in the series. All in which are realistic, action packed, and stories with strong plots.
3. I think that Sean picked a good quote passage from the book, because it gave us a sense of the authors style, and his description.
4. I would consider reading this book. I like stories that are action packed, suspenseful, and have a stong plot, which is what this book seems to have.
1. The reviewer's overall impression of the book is that he enjoyed it as he enjoys mysteries.
ReplyDelete2. The reviewer noticed that the author used a mystery and crime-solving techniques and used real life issues such as drugs, kidnapping and murder to tell the story.
3. The reviewer did pick an interesting passage because it shows how the author uses adjectives and words to describe the setting.
4. I might consider reading this book beacuse I like mysteries and mystery shows such as Law & Order and Lie to Me.